Cercidospora

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Dothideomycetes
Subclassis: Dothideomycetidae
Ordo: Dothideales

Genus: Cercidospora
Species: C. alpina – C. anomala – C. arthrorhaphidicola – C. caudata – C. cecidiiformans – C. cladoniicola – C. crozalsiana – C. decolorella – C. epicallopisma – C. epicarphinea – C. epipolytropa – C. exiguella – C. galligena – C. lecidomae – C. lobothalliae – C. macrospora – C. parva – C. punctillata – C. solearispora – C. soror – C. stereocaulorum – C. thamnoliicola – C. trypetheliza – C. verrucosaria – C. werneri – C. xanthoriae
Name

Cercidospora Körb., emend. Hafellner, 1865

Type: Cercidospora ulothii Körb., 1865

Life habit: Lichenicolous, commensalistic, non-lichenized

Geography: Northern Hemisphere (particularly in Europe, North America, North Africa and Asia) also known from South America

Substrate: Lichens and more rarely colonies of soil algae
Synonyms

Neonorrlinia Syd., Annls mycol. 21(5/6): 344 (1923)
Norrlinia Vain., Acta Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 49(no. 2): 185, 256, 258 (1921)
Pleosphaeropsis Vain., Acta Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 49(no. 2): 110 (1921)
Prolisea Clem., in Clements & Shear, Gen. fung., Edn 2 (Minneapolis): 78, 282 (1931)
Vainiona Werner, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences naturelles du Maroc 23: 159 (1943)

References
Primary

Körb., Parerga lichenol. (Breslau): 465 (1865)

Koerber, G.W. (1865) Parerga lichenologica. - Breslau. 385-501, (i)-xvi pp. **[Mattick Rec.# 33041] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)**

Secondary

Hafellner, Herzogia 7: 354 (1987)

Hafellner, J. (1987) Studien uber lichenicole Pilze und Flechten VI. Ein verandertes Gattungskonzept fur Cercidospora. - Herzogia 7: 353–365. **[RLL List # 136 / Rec.# 7257] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

Navarro-Rosinés, P.; Calatayud, V. and Hafellner, J. (2004) Cercidospora (pp. 635-639) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages. **[RLL List # 196 / Rec.# 25987] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

Links

USDA Plants Database

Index Fungorum

MycoBank

Vernacular names
English: Cercidospora lichens

Cercidospora is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis).[1] The genus was first described by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1865; it is synonymous with the name Prolisea described by Frederick Edward Clements in 1931.[2]
Species

The genus contains 36 accepted species:[3]

Cercidospora alpina Ihlen & Wedin
Cercidospora anomala Etayo
Cercidospora arthroraphidicola Alstrup
Cercidospora barrenoana Calat. & Nav.-Ros.
Cercidospora cecidiiformans Grube & Hafellner
Cercidospora cladoniicola Alstrup
Cercidospora crozalsiana (H.Olivier) Nav.-Ros., Cl.Roux & Casares
Cercidospora decolorella (Nyl.) O.E.Erikss. & J.Z.Yue
Cercidospora epicarphinea (Nyl.) Grube & Hafellner
Cercidospora epipolytropa (Mudd) Arnold
Cercidospora epithamnolia Zhurb.
Cercidospora exiguella (Nyl.) Arnold
Cercidospora galligena Hafellner & Nav.-Ros.
Cercidospora harknessii Kuntze
Cercidospora hypotrachynicola Etayo
Cercidospora lecidomae Zhurb. & Triebel
Cercidospora lobothalliae Nav.-Ros. & Calat.
Cercidospora macrospora (Uloth) Hafellner & Nav.-Ros.
Cercidospora melanophthalmae Nav.-Ros., Calat. & Hafellner
Cercidospora ochrolechiae Zhurb.
Cercidospora parva Hafellner & Ihlen
Cercidospora punctilla (Nyl.) R.Sant.
Cercidospora punctillata (Nyl.) R.Sant.
Cercidospora rinodinae Etayo & van den Boom
Cercidospora santessonii Motiej., Zhurb., Suija & Kantvilas
Cercidospora solearispora Calat., Nav.-Ros. & Hafellner
Cercidospora soror Obermayer & Triebel
Cercidospora stenotropae Nav.-Ros. & Hafellner
Cercidospora stereocaulorum (Arnold) Hafellner
Cercidospora thamnogalloides Zhurb.
Cercidospora thamnoliae Zhurb.
Cercidospora thamnoliicola Ihlen
Cercidospora trypetheliza (Nyl.) Hafellner & Obermayer
Cercidospora verrucosaria (Linds.) Arnold
Cercidospora werneri Nav.-Ros., Calat. & Hafellner
Cercidospora xanthoriae (Wedd.) R.Sant.